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Introductory Comments
Welcoming to the 10th Annual Conference and
Endorcement of the Conference
Jean Smiley
Administrator for Physical Services, Onondaga County
representing County Executive Jonie Mahonie
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Presentation of the first
Robert R. Hennigan Award
Presented by
James Hasset
Professor , College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)
Presented to
Robert Hennigan
Professor Emeritus, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)
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Invited Talk
"Ecosystem Responses to Changed Mercury Loads: Results from the METAALICUS Study"
Cynthia Gilmour
Senior Scientist
for the METAALICUS Team
Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center
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Scientific and Engineering Research Presentations.
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"A Retrospective Analysis of Sediment Phosphorus Release in Onondaga Lake, NY: Regulating Mechanisms and Implications for Recovery"
David A. Matthews and Steven W. Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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"Partitioning Phosphorus Concentrations and Loads in Tributaries of Onondaga Lake"
Steven W. Effler, Anthony R. Prestigiacomo and David A. Matthews
Upstate Freshwater Institute
Edward M. Michalenko and Donald J. Hughes
Onondaga Environmental Institute
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"Plunging of Onondaga Creek in Onondaga Lake: Dynamics in Drivers and Signatures and Implications"
Steven W. Effler, Susan M. O'Donnell, Anthony R. Prestigiacomo, David M. O'Donnell, David A. Matthews and Adam J.P. Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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"Variations in the Stratification Regime of Onondaga Lake: Patterns, Modeling and Implications"
Susan M. O'Donnell, David M. O'Donnell, Emmet M. Owens, Steven W. Effler, Anthony Prestigiacomo and Daniele M. Baker
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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"Temporal Dynamics of Mercury Species in the Upper Waters and Zooplankton of Onondaga Lake, NY"
Svetoslava Todorova and Charles T. Driscoll
Syracuse University
David A. Matthews, Steven W. Effler and Michael E. Spada
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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"Predicting the Transport and Fate of a Contaminated Sediment Layer in a Lake"
Steven C. Chapra
Tufts University
Martin T. Auer
Michigan Technological University
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"Enhanced Natural Recovery of Mercury-Contaminated Lake Sediments by Electron Acceptor Augmentation"
Martin T. Auer and G. Albert Galicinao
Michigan Technological University
David A. Matthews
Upstate Freshwater Institute
Svetoslava Todorova and Charles T. Driscoll
Syracuse University
Steven C. Chapra
Tufts University
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Invited Guest Speaker
Dr. Cynthia Gilmour is a Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD. She is a microbial ecologist and biogeochemist by training, with a BA in Biochemistry from Cornell, a PhD from the University Maryland, Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Program. Her research program in mercury cycling focuses on the biogeochemical controls on methylmercury production. Field studies by the Gilmour group and colleagues have illustrated the enhancement of Hg methylation by sulfate in many freshwater systems, including lakes impacted by acid deposition, and the Florida Everglades where agricultural sulfate enhances net mercury methylation. She is one of a group of principal investigators on the METAALICUS, a whole-watershed Hg- loading experiment, being conducted at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario. Recent work on mercury in Chesapeake Bay and the adjacent continental shelf has highlighted the importance of methylmercury production in coastal zones to ocean methylmercury budgets. Dr. Gilmour was a reviewer for EPA's 1997 Mercury Study Report to Congress. She has served on the EPA Science Advisory Board, Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Board, the CALFED Mercury Studies Program.
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